The volumes of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography contain a variety of articles on individuals involved in the Canadian fur trade.
The Beaver is a quarterly publication of the Hudson's Bay Company (since 1922) which contains a wealth of informative articles on aspects of fur trade history related to areas in which the company has operated.
Books and Articles
Bishop, C.A. The Northern Ojibwa and the Fur Trade: An Historical and Ecological Study. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974.
Brown, Jennifer S. H. Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1980.
Campbell, Marjorie W. The North West Company. Toronto: Macmillan, 1973.
Fisher, Robin. Contact and Conflict: Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1774-1890. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1977.
Foster, J.E. "The MÄtis: The People and the Term." Prairie Forum 3,1 (1978): 79-90.
Foster, J.E. "The Origins of the Mixed Bloods in the Canadian West." In Essays in Western History, edited by L.H. Thomas. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1976, pp. 71-82.
Francis, Daniel. Battle for the West: Fur Traders and the Birth of Western Canada. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1982.
Francis, Daniel and Morantz, Toby. Partners in Furs: A History of the Fur Trade in Eastern James Bay, 1600-1870. MontrÄal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983.
Galbraith, John S. The Little Emperor: Governor Simpson of the Hudson's Bay Company. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976.
Harper, J.R. Paul Kane's Frontier. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971.
Harris, R.C. and Warkentin, John. Canada Before Confederation: A Study in Historical Geography. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Hopwood, Victor, ed. David Thompson: Travels in Western North America 1784-1812. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976.
Hopwood, Victor, ed. The Journals and Letters of Sir Alexander Mackenzie. Toronto: Macmillan, 1970.
Judd, Carol M. and Ray, A.J., eds. Old Trails and New Directions: Papers of the Third North American Fur Trade Conference. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.
Macleod, M.A. and Morton, W.L. Cuthbert Grant of Grantown: Warden of the Plains of Red River. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963.
Morse, Eric. W. Fur Trade Canoe Routes of Canada: Then and Now. 2nd ed., rev. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979.
Morton, W.L. "The North West Company, Pedlars Extraordinary." In Aspects of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the 1965 North American Fur Trade Conference. St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Society, 1967, pp. 9-17.
Ray, A.J. Indians in the Fur Trade: their role as trappers, hunters and middlemen in the lands southwest of Hudson Bay 1660-1870. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974.
Rich, E.E. The Fur Trade and the Northwest to 1857. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1967.
Rich, E.E. MontrÄal and the Fur Trade. MontrÄal: McGill University Press, 1966.
Ross, Eric. Beyond the River and the Bay.... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970.
Thomas, L.G. "Historiography of the Fur Trade Era." In A Region of the Mind: Interpreting the Western Canadian Plains, edited by A.R. Allen. Regina: Canadian Plains Studies Centre, 1973, pp. 73-85.
Usher, P.J. Fur Trade Posts of the Northwest Territories 1870-1970. Ottawa: Northern Science Research Group, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 1971.
Warkentin, John, ed., The Western Interior of Canada: A Record of Geographical Discovery, 1612-1917. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1964.
Williams, G. "The Hudson's Bay Company and the Fur Trade, 1670-1870." The Beaver, Outfit 324,2 (Autumn 1983): 4-86.
Zaslow, Morris. The Opening of the Canadian North 1870-1914. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971.
Filmstrips
National Film Board. The Fur Trade in Canada Series. 6 colour sound filmstrips with teacher's guide. No. 123900N5.
Films
National Film Board. Age of the Buffalo. 14 mins., colour. 106C 0164 047.
National Film Board. Alexander Mackenzie -- The Lord of the North. 28 mins., colour. 106C 0164 115.
National Film Board. David Thompson -- The Great Mapmaker. 28 mins., black and white. 106B 0164 048.
National Film Board. The Magnificent Gift. 58 mins., colour. 106C 0176 228.
National Film Board. Selkirk of Red River. 28 mins., black and white. 106B 0164 144.
Slide Sets
Goossen, N. Jaye. Indian Trade and Ceremonial Silver: A Cultural Exchange. Ottawa: National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada and the National Film Board; Canada's Visual History, Volume 6.
Van Kirk, Sylvia. Life in the Western Canadian Fur Trade, 1770-1870. Ottawa: National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada and the National Film Board; Canada's Visual History, Volume 34.
